STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1585, sig. 109-4/1339 (damaged)

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-3- not taken into account." "Autumn harvests 194l: sugar beet 8o dz per ha ! ! Potatoes 7o dt per ha! ! These are yields which are to be described as catatstrophal. The managers of such plants must be held responsible. The livestock population has also completely run down. Thus the daily milk output of the cows amounts on average 3,3, liters. Of the existing 157 cows, 97 have been cheap for 1 and 2 years and therefore useless for further breeding ....." "While the milk yield of the cowshed does not reach a 5%, the wage burden is 250%." "The buildings, as in Krupna, have been heavily neglected" "The machines and equipment are also completely negligent and needing much repair. "The imposition of the compulsory administration is therefore not only justified, but also urgently necessary in the interests of popular nutrition." The conditions lie in such a way that the operation should also have been taken into compulsory administration if the owners were all German members of the Reich. In my opinion, the political statements made by the Goltz Justice Council in connection with singer Jarmila Novotna are not to be taken seriously, because if Novot- na were really known as German-friendly in America, it would hardly get an opportunity to sing "with enormous applause" in the opera. Discussions on whether Novotna is coming back to Europe or not are difficult in my opinion. There can be no mention of a commitment to Germanism yet. If the interventions of leading German lawyers for Czechs, against which legally properly qualified measures had to be taken, do not stop, it will be in my view. It is necessary to take measures against these Czechs and to express their possessions. It does not apply that, due to rumours, under -4-